Configure FME Server for SSL using NGINX as a reverse proxy

How we use NGINX for FME Cloud

For our platform as a Service (PaaS) product FME Cloud, our developers took advantage of the capabilities of NGINX as a reverse proxy for FME Server. While it simplifies the configuration of FME Server for SSL, including the web socket server, NGINX brings a couple of other benefits which @claudevessaz describes in more detail in his blog post.

How you can use NGINX for your own FME Server installation

To make it easier to configure FME Server for SSL using NGINX as a reverse proxy, when you install FME Server in your own environment, we provide all configuration files for NGINX and the detailed steps on how to configure FME Server and NGINX on Ubuntu 16.04.

This way you can now also take advantage of the benefits of using NGINX as a reverse proxy for FME Server in your own environment.

The detailed instructions and all needed files can be downloaded from this GitHub repository: